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Consumers expect their electronics to take a lot of abuse, yet device durability is ultimately about how well internal electronics have been protected. Destructive factors include moisture, vapor, corrosive solutions, sand and dust, as well as mechanical and thermal stress from vibration, impact and temperature extremes.

Industries around the world are catching on to the improvements offered by modern structural-grade adhesives. Consider the aerospace industry, which for generations relied on mechanical fasteners to keep together the machines that kept us in the air.

Manufacturing has been modernized by process efficiencies and innovative production techniques. OEMs are making products in a business environment much different than one from a decade or even five years ago.

Experienced engineers have discovered that adhesives are critical to sensor assemblies; and adhesives can be effective for bonding sensors to almost any surface. Sensor components which generate heat will benefit from a thermally conductive adhesive.

In the past decade, LED and LCD display technologies have become less expensive, easier to produce and more energy efficient. As a result, these types of displays have taken the place of signs and placards, offering a more vibrant, noticeable and modern design for communicating information to passersby.

Design and Manufacturing Engineers rarely have all options open to them when they are developing an assembly method for their product. Generally, as they work on their strategy, they are faced with a number of constraints.